to snap a shot. the kayaker said she was doing flip-flops, hearing the whale might dump her in the air, but he just said hello before he swam away. thanks for watching, "studio b" starts right now, with trace gallagher. >> trace: this is "studio b." major developments in the international standoff with syria. the u.s. military now said be ready to launch an attack at a moment's notice of and it comes as we wait to see new evidence that the syrian regime gassed its own civilians. it's an enormous wildfire growing, scorching hundreds of square miles. crews say they're making progress but nowhere near having this thing under control. the latest on that. and a new medical report on how stress can actually speed up the growth of cancer. that's all ahead unless breaking news changes everything. on "studio b."

>> but first from fox at 3:00. it's not a matter of if but when the u.s. will launch an attack on syria. that is what a senior defense official tells fox news. officials say the u.s. military is now off the coast of syria, and prepared to strike once president obama gives the okay. and we expect to learn more from u.s. intelligence experts as early as today. they're set to release the report laying out the evidence of last week's reported chemical attack in a suburb of the capital city damascus. some news agencies reported that more than 100 people died there. others said it was more than a thousand. this afternoon, a state department spokeswoman said any claim that the rebels launched the attack defies logic. >> it's undeniable that chemical weapons were used here on a large scale know. the regime maintains custody of the weapons and uses these rockets and well know the opposition does not have the capability. >> of course, the syrian regime

has blamed the opposition. also, therer is no evidence to support that, and though today syria's foreign minister vowed his nation would defend itself using all means available. jonathan hunt will have more on that in a moment. first, jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon, and, jen, what are you learning about this potential military strike? >> well, trace, a senior u.s. official tells us that any strike on syria is likely to last hours-not days. according to u.s. military sources there are no plans in this initial mission set to go after assad's chemical weapons. it's not possible to carry out a surgical strike on chemical weapon storage facilities. assad is estimated to have 100 tons of the material. such a strike could unleech the chemicals and lead to a lot of death and destruction, and those chemicals are basically kept in underground sites. any plans to secure assad's chemical weapons would require special operations and boots on

the ground. that's not on the table right now. the u.s. is planning a limit strike. it has four navy destroyers in position and at least one nuclear-powered submarine. the brits have another submarine in the met -- mediterranean. >> trace: what about the timing? when is this likely to happen? >> it's not likely to happen before thursday. if you look at the timing, defense secretary chuck hagel spoke to his birch and french counterparts, but there's also a very important meeting scheduled in brussels at nato headquarters tomorrow, and no strike will happen before that time. >> let's get the facts. let get the intelligence. and then a decision will be made on whether action should be taken, if action should be taken, what action, or no action. >> if -- you're ready to go like

that? >> we're ready to go like that. >> the plan is too deter assad from using chemical weapons again and degrade his abilities, and the pentagon suggests the strike will be limited in nature. >> trace: thank you. some u.s. allies had tough words for the syrian regime today. the saudi arabian foreign minister urged the world to take a decisive and serious stand against syria. while the french president announced france is ready to punish those who took the heinous decision to gas innocents. israel's prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, says his country will strike back but only if syria tries to attack first. the fox report's chief correspondent jonathan hunt is live in our new york city studio. a coalition seems to be coming together quickly. >> it does, and an important part of the coalition, even if unofficially, is the arar league. that organization put out a statement today firmly pointing

the finger of blame for that alleged chemical weapons attack at the syrian government. that could be important political cover. now, in terms of western leaders, among those leading the charge are the british prime minister, david cameron, who said today that the west has a moral duty to act, but it has to be limited, and targeted. listen. >> i understand people's concerns about getting involved in wars in the middle east, getting sucked into the situation in syria. this is not about wars in the middle east. this is not even about the syrian conflict. it's about the use of chemical weapons and making sure as a well we deter their use. >> to the point you made with jen griffin about timing, the british prime minister has recalled the british parliament to debate the question of military action against syria. that debate was due to take

place thursday morning eastern time. that for those reading the tea leaves might be another clue as to the timing of any potential military action. >> trace: while all this is going on, jonathan, syria still denies it ever used any chemical weapons. >> the syrian foreign minister making that point quite pointedly today. listen. >> translator: it is categorically inaccurate, and as i said, i challenge them to come forward with any evidence that they have. >> the u.n. weapons inspectors are still on the ground in syria. they have had some setbacks, including that sniper attack. you can see the bullet holes on one vehicle in their convoy. i spoke to a chemical weapons expert who said that despite the delays that u.n. team should be able to reach definitive conclusions on the use of chemical weapons. listen. >> while any delay complicates the effort, it does not in any

way limit the ability to get verification of the agent use if that is what happened. >> we don't know any sort of timing on when those u.n. inspectors will publish theirs conclusions, but it also seems very clear that u.s. officials have reached conclusions on their own, and are clearly prepared to act on those conclusions. trace? >> trace: that's the way it appears. jonathan hunt live in new york. thank you. with us now former state department official, christian whiten, the author of the upcoming back "smart power" between diplomacy and war. you have jennifer griffin reporting, timing is still a big question. jennifer griffin saying this is likely to be a three or four-hour attack if it happens. what i haven't heard -- maybe you have -- what then? we go in, we cannot hit their chemical weapons because we can't get the underground.

what happens after that. >> there's not a clear objective here nor a strategy that flows. we're just going in to basically say you can't use chemical weapons, at least not on this scale and not have some consequence but there's no determination of where we're trying to move things on the ground. >> that's the question everybody has. when you go in there, there's usually some kind of a goal. regime change. we don't know what the other regime would be if bashar al-assad is taken out of power. >> jay carney was asked, is this about regime change. he said it's not about that. but no accounting for which group or faction among the rebels who want to help, where we want things to go. >> it's fascinating. you look at the big pick expire think, okay, what happens next? we get a coalition of the willing and they say, america, go ahead, we got your back. but we carry the burden for the military all the criticism coming from around the world and now there are threats saying, okay, we have asked hezbollah to take american hostages in

lebanon if someone was to bomb syria. seems like the coalition of the willing is the united states on its own. >> but of course we're being pushed, you'd say, by britain and france, which is very reminiscent of libya where we were just supposed to be involved a little bit in the beginning and britain and france and nato were supposed to do the heavy lifting and they can't. they don't spend enough on their military so it falls to us. >> talk about how the white house is selling this. jay carney said they believe the chemical weapons pose a direct threat to the united states. so they're kind of trying to form this in a way that becomes more palatable to the united states. >> of course, obama all along has really tried to prioritize the united nations. part of libya was about enforcing the writ of the international community, set eight side whether or not there is an international community. we're not going to be permission from the u.n. russia and china won't allow it. so they're trying to say it's a direct threat to the united states and we really have to

draw sort of line. >> if bashar al-assad uses more chemical weapons, what's the next? >> that's the question and he can say, hey issue beat the united states and britain because he is almost certainly going survive this. >> we're watching. good to see you. thank you, sir. >> fire crews in california say they're now making progress on one of the biggest wildfires in state history. the problem is, they also say the fire is still growing. that plus a little girl who endured a devastating illness and then two lung transplants is now finally back in her home. sarah murnaghan's incredible story coming up. [ male announcer ] running out of steam? ♪ now you can give yourself a kick in the rear! v8 v-fusion plus energy. natural energy from green tea plus fruits and veggies. need a little kick? ooh! could've had a v8. in the juice aisle. her busy saturday

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officials say since yesterday the fire has grown from 250 square miles to 280 square miles. an area roughly seven times the size of disney world. the wildfire is the biggest ever recorded in the sierra nevada region. evacuation advisories remain in place for people living near the flames which have been threatening thousands of homes and other structures, and officials report they're not too worried about ash from the fire that has been falling into a reservoir that supplies drinking water to san francisco. they sale the nontoxic ash has not been sinking far enough down to reach the intake valve. let's get live to claudia cowan in california. claudia, what's the later? reporter: well, trace, this is now the top priority. fire in the nation and nearly 4,000 firefighters from around california and nevada are on it. and with the flames still burning in those ruth -- rugged

canyons the firefight is an all-out air assault. air tankers making drops of water and retardant and ground crews are setting bafires and more. >> they're cutting line. they're using bulldozers. they're actually putting a barrier between the expire any structures or infrastructure that may be threatened. reporter: this is now the biggest wildfire on record in california's sierra nevada. it's destroyed 31 homes and 80 outbuildings, caused several minor injuries as well. the cause of the fire remains under investigation. >> trace: clearly awful news for those people who lost their homes, about the fire does have an upside. right? reporter: we hear all the time how wildfires like this one have benefits for the forest, clearing away the dead, dry brush, making way for new vegetation growth, and it turns out that the bright red fire retardant we see being dropped

from the tankers and the jets,se fire's spread but also helps repair the ground that has been burned. >> not just a chemical. actually has fertilization properties to help the area regrow once its reactivated with our rains or snow in the area. reporter: he says that some areas might in fact recovery immediately. we're also hearing it could be months before the fire is completely out. >> trace: we'd like to get it out. claudey cowan live for us. thank you. brand new drama today in the trial of the teenager accused of shooting to death a 13-month-old boy. as the baby's mother wheeled him in a stroller. that mother, weeping on the stand today, recounting the day her young son was murdered. a live report from the courthouse on that is next. [ whispering ] uh! i had a nightmare!

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a mother today has given emotional testimony in the trial of the teenager accused of shooting and killing her baby as she pushed the child in a stroller. sherry west broke down on the stand in a georgia courtroom. she told jurors how she says that teenager, demarcus elkins tried to rob her, and said when she told him she had no money he attempted to shoot her in the head but hit her ear and then shot her in the leg and then turned the gun on her baby. >> he walked over and shot my baby. >> see him shoot your baby? >> yes. i tried to stop him. i put my arms over my baby. but he still shot him.

>> trace: prosecutors say elkins shot the baby in the face. a single bullet between the eyes. a pastor today also testified that elkins tried to rob him and shot him in the arm, just about a week and a half before the killing. john roberts is live in marietta, georgia. the mother's testimony today is a very pivotal moment in this trial. >> to be sure it is, trace. this is the moment the jurors have been waiting a week for. the mom on the stand recounting the events in gruesome detail. she was returning from the post office, five minutes from her home, when two young boys walked up the street, one demanded her purse. when she refused it turned deadly. >> he asked me if i wanted him to shoot my baby. and i said, please don't shoot my baby. then he pointed it at me, and he

tried to shoot me in the head. and i ducked. and then he shot me in the leg. when he walked over and shot my baby. >> barely able to walk from her own wounds she said she wheeled her son into a nearby yard to perform cpr but the baby was already dead. >> aside from the heart-rending testimony she gave the jurors saw a re-enactment of the crime today? >> that was a remarkable scene. very same day as the shooting with events still fresh in her mind and me mom still in shock, the police took her back to the scene of the crime to get her to walk them through it and a very dramatic moment in court at the end of the prosecution testimony when she pointed out the man she says killed her child. >> do you see in this courtroom today the man who shot and killed your baby? >> yes.

>> point him out to us. >> the young man in the blue. >> she pointed straight to demarcus elkins. the defense will spend the rest of the day taking apart her story piece-by-piece. back to you. >> trace: john roberts, live in marietta, georgia. let's get more on the trial. bring in mercedes corwin, great to see you. >> great to see you. >> trace: i think talking with john roberts, the mom's testimony was riveting but the defense has tried to beat this mother up, blaming her during parts of the trial. how important is her testimony today? >> you're exactly right. the cornerstone of their defense is that the mother was the killer of the child some she had a financial interest involved. why? because the mother took out a life insurance policy on the baby, and shortly after the baby was dead, she is calling the insurance company to collect on that policy. so that is why they have turned this all around.

the whole focus was on the mother and the fact that there was some ballistic evidence that showed she had gunpowder on her hands and the baby's father had gun residue on the hands, too. that's why her testimony is absolutely critical to show she in fact was a victim, not the perpetrator of the crime. >> trace: we have seen this in trials. jodi arias trial and this trial and the defense trying to paint the victim really here as the perpetrator, and is it working with juries, in your systems? will this work? the evidence seems fairly overwhelming against these two kids. >> it certainly does. the only eye witness to the crime was the mother. so it was brilliant of the defense so say, wait a minute, this is conjured up by the mother. what they have to overcome is the fact that the mother was injured as well she had a grazing of her ear, the bullet grazed the top of her head and bullet wound to her leg so it's consistent to what she is saying. it's hard for jurors to believe she would take a bullet that

could have killed her to her head, dodge that, and then shoot herself in the leg, even if she had the second person, the father of the child, ann gauged as welch it's unlikely. something the jurors -- >> trace: there were two kids that have been charged in this crime. one was an accomplice, named dominic lane but he didn't see the baby shot in the face. he says he saw the threats and the so forth and he testified, but he was painted pretty good as a liar in court last week. how important is his testimony? >> you're exactly right. they're going to turn around and said he has this incentive to make sure that this kid doesn't get convicted because he is an accomplice. he wasn't the purported shooter, actually an accomplice of elkins, and if elkins gets away from this, anything that lane did is tied to elkins, and conceivably lane could walk as well.

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>> trace: i'm trace gallagher, this is "studio b." and we're awaiting a report from the u.s. intelligence experts which could provide a clearer picture of last week's purported chemical massacre in syria. some of their findings could become public as early as today, and remember, united nations inspectors are on the ground in syria as we speak. the u.n. reports they delayed a second visit to the site of the attack ute of security concerns. keep in mind, two of syria's powerful allies, russia and china could prove to be tough road blocks should the u.n. consider taking further action. those two nations have vetoed previous u.n. resolutions condemning the syrian regime. ed henry is live. do we know if the white house sees the report on the attack is

a threat that justifies a military strike? >> trace, today jay carney said they do think it's a threat that would justify a military attack, although he stressed this is hypothetical and the president has not made a decision on the attack. there's a car alarm going off here near the white house. nothing other than that. let me stress. but the bottom line is, they are under great pressure for the president to act because he drew the redline a year ago this month saying that if chemical weapons were used in syria, that would be in a red line that in his orders, enormous consequences, suggesting u.s. military action. the line according to the administration has now been crossed canner although today they stress their goal is to not take out president assad. listen to this. >> does he want to take out assad? and would his death be a welcomed outcome at this white house? >> i want to make clear that the options we are considering are not about regime change.

they are about responding to clear violations of an international standard that prohibits the use of chemical weapons. >> that answer is going to raise more questions in the days leading up to possible u.s. military action here. as you know u.s. policy for well over a year has been they wanted assad out of power, although now they're saying if we take military action our goal is not take assad another of power. the way they split that is to say that military action would be punishing syria perhaps for using chemical weapon put they want a political solution, not a military solution to take assad out. >> trace: thank goodness the car alarm is gone now. is the administration set on military action or are there other options possibly in mind? >> they say anywhere not set on military action and there are other options like more sanctions but we have seen those steps before and have done very little to stop assad from thumbing his nose at the u.s., the u.n., our allies around the

world. and when you have defense secretary chuck hagel today saying, look, u.s. military is ready to go, it's very clear that is the leading option that the president is considering right now. but republicans like ted cruz wonder, is this just about the president following through on his rhetoric or is this actual action that is going to do something to damage syrian president assad and his hold on power. >> our concern should be those chemical weapons presenting -- preventing them from falling into the hand of hezbollah and al qaeda. that should be guiding our actions, not expressing some moral outrage. >> the next step here will be the president has ordered the declassification, we're told, of intelligence they say inside the white house will show assad is responsible for using these chemical weapons. as you noted, could be as early as today although some officials are telling me it's more likely tomorrow. trace? >> trace: ed henry live for us on the north lawn. thank you.

joining us now associate editor and columnist for "the hill." ab stoddard. good to see you. >> good to see you. >> trace: it's fascinating because ed henry brings up a point, the president never mentioned the whole red line. to striking today? it looks like for all intents and purposes this is going to be a go. are we committed if he doesn't say that year ago, ab? >> well, what is interesting is that he did, as ed henry points out, one time say assad needs to step aside. he hunt -- has not done anything to that end. he has not respond with military retaliation with reports of initial chemical attacks. now they believe the evidence is so great that there has been this other one sustained on the 21st of august, they have to act on what he calls the red line. the red line is not about regime change, not about ending a civil war that is two years old and

has killed more than 100,000 people. the red line says you can kill your own people. you just can't do it with chemical weapons. you can use conventional means and we have not intercepted or intervened to stop you but you can't use chemical weapones. does this limited strike even deter or degrade, which they say is the goal of the strike? that we don't know. if they don't attack the weapons site, they only attack military targets where the weapons are launched, we don't even know if it's going to succeed. >> trace: it's a good point. now you say the white house is framing this different. there was a red line. now suddenly the white house is saying, this is a threat to the united states. so they have to go in but the point remains this is a three or four-hour military action. have you heard a good argument for what this will achieve and then what happens next? >> right. the problem is that they say, again, this is a -- the goal is punish, deter, and degrade. so we're going to punish assad

for using chemical weapons and that's a moral obscenity. but killing his open people by conventional arsenal means is not, to this date, a moral obscenity. so we're going to pun issue and he hopes to deter him from using them again and destroy his capability. they've don't go after the chemical sites because it's too volatile and dangerous and only military targets targets where e chemical weapons are launched, we don't know he won't try it again. they promised to respond. they promised to retaliate. so it's likely that this strike -- it might be limited but might have to lead to another one. >> trace: nobody knows if assad is going to fire back and that's the big question, what happens next. a.b. stoddard, good to see you as always. thank you. >> thank you. >> trace: just minutes ago the army psychiatrist whom jurors convicted of killing 13 people at a texas army post in 2009, rested his case without addressing the court.

major nadal hasan indicated he would not call any witnesses in his sentencing phase, but it was not clear if he would make a statement. again, he didn't. and now those jurors are one step closer to deciding whether hasan will die for his crimes or spend the rest of his life in prison. casey stegal is live for us at fort hood. what happened? >> this one was a little surprising, i have to say, when the judge gave major hasan the floor, he simply said, the defense rests and that's what he said in the findings faces of the court-martial last week. some thought this would be his opportunity to talk today because in the sentencing phase there are far less restrictions if he decided to speak. meaning he could have even made some type of a statement without even taking an oath. instead of a question and answer format like he would have been required to do had he spoken last week. and many thought this would be his opportunity to explain why he did what he did, clearly that

did not happen today. now, the silence comes after the prosecution over the last two days have called some 19 witnesses to the stand, widows, children, and parents of people, the 13 who lost their lives on this texas army post back in 2009. we also heard from handful of people who were shot on that day, badly injured, a man who said he had 20% of his brain removed because he was shot in the head. we have heard from people who had to retire from the army because they were paralyzed on one side because of injuries they sustained that day. a lot of tears. it's been a brutal two days of testimony in this sentencing phase here. >> trace: i can only imagine. take us forward, casey. what happens next for the jury? >> well, now the jury has been dismissed for the afternoon. so the panel members will return first thing tomorrow morning. that is also a little surprising because we thought they would move straight into closing arguments, but once hasan rested

they decided to go ahead and send the panel home for the day. the judge decided to do that. so think of this as a trial within a trial. we're going to go through the exact same steps that we went through at the very end of last week. so, what will happen, the panel comes back tomorrow, they will be instructed for their deliberations and then we have closing arguments, all over again, another set of closing arguments. the prosecution is goes to talk and then it will go to the defense once again, and major hasan will have one more opportunity, and this will be his final opportunity to address this court and address the panel and then the panel goes into deliberations and, again, they must be unanimous if they are going to give major hasan the death penalty here, trace. >> trace: casey stegal live for us. thank you. homeland security secretariant napolitano says she is confident the agency did its job her her leadership, from

blocking terrorist attacks and responding to natural disasters. she steps down next week to become president of the university of california system. credittics note the boston marathon bombing and lots of complaints about a airport security also happened on her watch. among the secretary's remarks today, a warning about future threats, including a possible cyber attack. she says her big takeaway from the job is adapt. >> in a world with evolving threats the key to our success is the ability to be flexible and agile and adapt to changing circumstances on the ground, whether that's across the globe or here at home. >> the secretary took aim at congress for not passing immigration reform. it's not clear when president obama will name a successor. concerns about sir contract now driving down the dow for a

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later on, and you will hear from them tonight right here on fox report. potentially big news in the fight against cancer. word that stress can help spread breast cancer and possibly other forms of the disease through the human body. that's according to researchers at ohio state university. according to the american cancer society, the spread of cancer from primary sites known as metastasize is the biggest challenge. the researchers studied hundreds of breast cancer patients and said stress trigger a master gene which corrupts the body's immune system, giving cancer an escape route. scientists don't know why this happen but this discovery could lead to the development of drugs and other cancer treatment. with us now, dr. cheatham, an attending physician in new york. just so we have this correct here, normally your body

recognizes cancer cells as the enemy and tries tries to kill t, but this new stress gene tricks the body, it changes that. right? >> well, that is kind of the way it goes, yes, trace. this is very, very interesting research. this is looking at protein that we see associated with cancer cells and actually coming from the host. the patient who has cancer, these cells are being activated and this particular protein results in spread of cancer from the primary site. the study has been reported in breast cancer but this is attribute automobile to many cancers, including prostate cancer, to the spread of cancer this stress gene is associated with. >> we can't just tell the whole world, the way to get around this is you can't have stress. everybody has stress. what do we do to mitigate this? >> that's right. we all have stress in our lives, every single day, but it's more a question of how you actually handle stress.

what's also very exciting is not just the potential effects of stress management on patients with cancer but this may be a target for new drug therapies, not just for breast cancer but other cancers as well. so it's very exciting news and we know that stress is a component in many different diseases, so this protein may actually have a role in treating other diseases, not just breast cancer. trace tase give -- >> trace: give me an idea how to take the stress gene and turn it into a possible cure or at least a treatment for cancer. >> well, trace, this is a protein, and protein has receptors on them. so drugs can be developed to target the receptors on the proteins and either upregulate them or downregulate them with cancer treatment and block the protein and prevent the spread of cancer which results in many issues related with cancer prognosis and outcomes.

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the vice-president joe biden breaking news now. just spoke about the situation in syria just minutes ago as the white house considers what action to take against bashar al-assad's regime. >> no one doubts that innocent men, women, and children, have been the victims of chemical weapons attacks in syria.

and there is no doubt who is responsible for this heinous use of chemical weapons in syria. the syrian regime. >> trace: the first time anybody from the administration has said absolutely no doubt chemical weapons were used, and that they know who used them. vice-president biden added he and president obama believe those who use c weapons against defenseless men, women and children, ought to be held accountable. most folks would choose not to roll around in glass anywhere but in florida lawmakers are considering grinding its up and spreading it on the beaches. experts say decades of beach erosion and decades of dredging up sands to repreparish the beaches have caused sand to go away, and since the sunshine state soaks up billions of

dollars of tourism for the beaches, all options are on the table, including crushed glass. phil keating is on miami beach. causing a sand war, right? reporter: the sand wars are underway between the counties in florida because the ones up north still have 50 years worth of offshore sand supply waiting to replenish the beaches due to erosion, and here's an example in miami beach. it drops down five feet in miami-dade and broward county their sands have run out, and one day maybe people couldn't bury themselves in the sand or build sand castles. >> there's some samples that came from some sort of a green bottle. >> so what broward county is doing, taking a look

environmentally as well as toxicity and testing being done to see whether taking glass bottles, rushing them and grinding them down to the same coarseness and size of the natural sand, to see if that will fell the gap. we felt and it touched it and it felt like the natural sand, and glass is made from sand heeded up to 3700-degree fahrenheit so the people on the beach we spoke with, the tourists, like the idea because it's very environmentally green. >> trace: phil keating laboring away on miami beach. good to see you. summer may be winding down despite the fact that phils on the beach, but folks in the midwest are in the midst of a sweltering heat wave. heat advisories and warnings in place. the blister temperatures forced some schools to close, just as the school year gets underway. forecasters tell us the heat index today could climb to

110 degrees in some areas. janice dean is live in the fox weather center. >> yes, hot across the upper midwest, stretching into the great lakes. we have a high heat warning for minneapolis. take a look at the temperatures, high 90s. but with the humidity, 104, iowa city. 100 in chicago. 104 in minneapolis. typically this time of year it's in 70s for minneapolis. so folks without air conditioners need to get to cooling centers and check on the elderly, check on your kids and pets and make sure they're indoors and keeping cool. >> trace: watch your pets. the cyclists claims she same face-to-face with the thief who had stolen a very expensive beak from her. next, how she says she got her wheels back, and why police say people should not follow her example.

then there's this before we call it a day on "studio b." getting a bicycle stolen is no fun. how about getting the last laugh. a woman in canada claims somebody recently ripped off her $1,000 bike. then she says a friend noticed a similar bike on craigslist. so the woman called up the seller and arranged a little meeting. when she met the guy, there was her beloved ride. so she says she asked for a test drive. the suspect said, sure, take it out, but warned her not to ride off. the woman says that's exactly what she did. check mate. cops however saying things could have gone much worse and warning others not to take the same matters into their own hands. >> you're iras and 401ks taking a beating on the corner of wall and broad. the dow is down because of syria. driving oil prices up, pushing

the dow down. neil cavuto will have that and more coming up on "your world" in 14 seconds. i'm trace gallagher in for shepard smith. that's it for "studio b." bill will be back with the fox report. have a great afternoon. >> neil: syria, front and center. investors, fearful and selling. fox on top of a world on edge. britain's prime minister david cameron recalling parliament to discuss syria. war planes sported in cyprus, russia and china warning against any strike on syria. stocks plunging. oil surging. gold prices soaring. as anyone worth their security salt continues meeting and weighing, is now the time the u.s. puts an end to all the talking and does something.